Current Affairs QUIZ: February 04, 2014

Current Affairs QUIZ: February 04, 2014

1. Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour was conferred on cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar and eminent scientist Prof CNR Rao by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. The awards were given at the Durban Hall of the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on 4 February 2014. With this felicitation, Sachin became the youngest person alive to be conferred with the award and also ___________ sportsperson to be conferred with the honour of Bharat Ratna.

[A] First

[B] Second

[C] Third

[D] Fourth

2. Who was appointed as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) on 1 February 2014?

[A] Shreekant Javalgekar

[B] Jignesh Shah

[C] Manoj Vaish

[D] Vineet Mittal

3. Who took charge as the Regional Director of World Health Organisation (WHO) South-East Asia Region on 1 February 2014

[A] Samlee Plianbangchang

[B] Ashok Saxena

[C] Vineet Khare

[D] Poonam Khetrapal Singh

4. Who launched the National Mission on Libraries (NML) by Union Ministry of Culture on 3 February 2014?

[A] Manmohan Singh

[B] Pranav Mukherjee

[C] Sonia Gandhi

[D] Raghuram Rajan

5. Which day was celebrated across the globe on 2 February 2014 with the theme of Wetlands & Agriculture?

[A] World Wetland Day

[B] World Water Day

[C] World Green Day

[D] World Heritage Day

6. 101^st Indian Science Congress (ISC), which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on 3 February 2014, is being organized at

7. Price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and Piped Natural Gas (PNG) are expected to be reduced by around Rs. 15 and Rs. 5 per kg respectively following a rejig in the domestic gas supplies announced by the Union Government on 3 February 2014. What was done under this rejig?

8. President Pranab Mukherjee on 3 February 2014 launched the National Mission on Libraries (NML) to modernise and digitally link public libraries across the country. Creation of a National Virtual Library of India is one of the major component schemes of NML. NML is an initiative of which Ministry?

9. Social networking site Facebook completed how many years of its establishment on 4 February 2014?

10. Who took over as Asian Development Bank’s new Country Director for India on 3 February 2014?

11. Who was appointed as the new CEO and Managing Director of MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX), the country’s newest full-fledged stock exchange on 2 January 2014?

1. [A] First

2. [C] Manoj Vaish

3. [D] Poonam Khetrapal Singh

4. [B] Pranav Mukherjee

5. [A] World Wetland Day

6. Jammu University, Jammu (The theme of ISC 2014 is “Innovations in Science and Technology for Inclusive Development”. The Congress would conclude on 7 February 2014)

7. Government raised domestic gas supplies to raise allocations to fuel retailers (Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas decided to raise the share of domestic gas to 100 % of the requirement for CNG (transport) and PNG (domestic). This would lead to reduction in price of CNG (transport) and PNG (domestic) across the country (except in those City Gas Distribution (CGD) entities which are already getting 100% domestic gas))

8. Union Ministry of Culture (Kolkata-based Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation (RRRLF) is the nodal agency for the implementation of NML. NML is a 10-member body headed by Prof. Deepak Pental, former Vice Chancellor of Delhi University. Approved by the government in November last year, NML was set up in pursuance of a report of the National Knowledge Commission, which recommended a total revamp of the Library and Information Service sector to serve the changing needs and expectations of the users and give a fillip to the library movement in the country)

9. 10 years (The site was launched by Mark Zuckerberg on 4 February 2004, from Harvard University. The site was conceived as a way to connect students, and let them build an online identity for themselves. The social networking site has since expanded to cover a large swath of the world, with more than 1.2 billion people using its site on a monthly basis)

10. Teresa Kho (She was heading the Bangladesh Resident Mission of ADB and replaced Hun Kim, who is now Deputy Director General of ADB’s South Asia Department in Manila)

11. Saurabh Sarkar (He was appointed following a formal approval from market regulator SEBI. Sarkar, previously MD and CEO of United Stock Exchange of India Ltd, has also worked with global financial services giants like Credit Agricole, Standard Chartered and Calyon, and ANZ Grindlays Bank in the past)